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Who is Hedeya Malak and Alaa Abouelkassem who held the Egyptian flag in the Olympics?

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Hedeya Malak is a Taekwondo fighter chosen by the Egyptian Olympic Committee (EOC) to carry the flag in Olympics of the Tokyo Olympic Games. As Hedeya is one of the first female Egyptians to carry the flag, all the Egyptians are proud, especially female Egyptians, as a role model in Egypt. She won bronze before in the Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro as that's the reason that the EOC chose her and Alaa to hold the flag together in yesterday's event.


Alaa Abouelkassem is a male fencer who entered the Olympics before and won a silver in 2012, which made him have the qualification to hold the flag with Hedeya.

Hesham Hattab, Head of EOC on the committee’s official Facebook page quoted and said 

We chose two olympic champions because we aim to send several messages through our choice. We wanted to motivate all our female and male athletes to succeed, and show them that they will be honoured and celebrated by carrying the country’s flag and leading the delegation 

and also stated that 

 These athletes are worthy to lead the rest of the athletes towards repeating the achievements in Tokyo, 

The leadership of the delegation saw an opportunity to send many special messages by choosing the duo, the most important of which is to motivate all players to perform and strive for achievement, and thus receive the appropriate prize, Carrying the flag at the Olympic Games is a great responsibility, and it was necessary for us to confirm that our delegation includes champions that have proven experience in succeeding at the Olympics

This time marks that's two athletes this time is holding the Egyptian flag because there are so many people that entered this edition of the Olympics as this delegation will include 134 athletes in 27 sports.


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👉Sources:

https://egyptianstreets.com/2021/07/20/hedaya-malak-alaa-abouelkassem-to-carry-egypts-flag-at-tokyo-2020-olympics/

https://www.kingfut.com/2021/07/19/olympics-egypt-flag-carriers-parade-of-nations/


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